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Spatial dependence of extreme seas in the North East Atlantic from satellite altimeter measurements

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Spatial dependence of extreme seas in the North East Atlantic from satellite altimeter measurements. / Shooter, R.; Ross, E.; Ribal, A. et al.
In: Environmetrics, Vol. 32, No. 4, e2674, 30.06.2021.

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Shooter, R, Ross, E, Ribal, A, Young, IR & Jonathan, P 2021, 'Spatial dependence of extreme seas in the North East Atlantic from satellite altimeter measurements', Environmetrics, vol. 32, no. 4, e2674. https://doi.org/10.1002/env.2674

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Shooter, R., Ross, E., Ribal, A., Young, I. R., & Jonathan, P. (2021). Spatial dependence of extreme seas in the North East Atlantic from satellite altimeter measurements. Environmetrics, 32(4), Article e2674. https://doi.org/10.1002/env.2674

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Shooter R, Ross E, Ribal A, Young IR, Jonathan P. Spatial dependence of extreme seas in the North East Atlantic from satellite altimeter measurements. Environmetrics. 2021 Jun 30;32(4):e2674. Epub 2021 Feb 14. doi: 10.1002/env.2674

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Shooter, R. ; Ross, E. ; Ribal, A. et al. / Spatial dependence of extreme seas in the North East Atlantic from satellite altimeter measurements. In: Environmetrics. 2021 ; Vol. 32, No. 4.

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abstract = "The extremal spatial dependence of significant wave height in the North East Atlantic is explored using Joint Altimetry Satellite Oceanography Network satellite altimeter observations for the period 2002–2018, and a spatial conditional extremes model motivated by the work of Heffernan and Tawn. The analysis involves (a) registering individual satellite passes onto a template transect, (b) marginal extreme value analysis at a set of locations on the template transect and transformation from physical to standard Laplace scale, (c) estimation of the spatial conditional extremes model for a set of locations on a template transect, and (d) comparison of extreme spatial dependence for different template transects. Inferences for two transects considered are qualitatively similar; however, for the “normal ascending” transect running approximately south-west to north-east lying between Iceland and the United Kingdom, extremal spatial dependence is found to decay more quickly than for the second “opposite descending” transect running approximately north-west to south-east to the west of Ireland.  ",
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AU - Jonathan, P.

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